The term 'your friend' (possessive adjective-noun combination) can be a subject of a sentence or clause, the object of a verb or a preposition.
Subject: Your friend, Jim, is on the phone.
Object of verb (direct object): You can call your friendon my phone.
Object of verb (indirect object): Please give your friendmy phone number.
Object of preposition: The message from your friend is on the counter. (object of the preposition 'from')
The direct object of a verb can be a noun, a pronoun, or an adjective. Examples:
Mary broke her glasses. (the direct object of the verb broke is the noun glasses)
We saw them at the movie. (the direct object of the verb saw is the pronoun them)
The garden looks pretty. (the direct object of the verb looks is the adjective pretty)
A name can be a direct object. The direct object is a noun that the action of a sentence is done to. John hates Jill. Jill is the direct object.
no, but it can have a predicate adjective or predicate nominative
object
"You were in the mountains" does not have a direct object.
The verb does not have a direct object in the sentence, "She is insecure."
A transitive verb takes a direct object.
no a direct object will always be after the verb.
A Transitive Verb
object
The direct object is the noun or pronoun that receives the action of the verb directly. An object, on the other hand, is a more general term that refers to any noun or pronoun that receives the action of a verb, including direct and indirect objects.
In the phrase "Randy mailed a package" the word package is the direct object, and in the phrase "to his friend Jorge" the name Jorge is the direct object.
"You were in the mountains" does not have a direct object.
The verb does not have a direct object in the sentence, "She is insecure."
I gave my dog a bone ('my dog' = indirect object; 'a bone' = direct object). They called me a taxi. (taxi - direct object, me- indirect object)
The direct object is "you"; the indirect object (I believe) is "this".
"You" can be either a direct or indirect object: It is a direct object in "I want to kiss you." It is an indirect object in "Henry is going to give you the tickets."
Yes !! it is a direct object!!
No, "story" is not typically considered an indirect object. In a sentence, the indirect object usually receives the direct object. For example, in the sentence "She gave him a story," "him" is the indirect object and "a story" is the direct object.
A noun as a direct object? Jack ate the cake. - noun direct object = cake She brought lunch for her sister. - noun direct object = lunch